Minnesota · Nonprofit
YOUTH FRONTIERS INC
YOUTH FRONTIERS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,913,714 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($3,725,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Youth Frontiers Inc does
Mission
Provide students, educators, and communities with experiences that inspire character, civility and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Yf's overall goal is to support schools in building positive learning communities where young people thrive. Specifically, we work to improve the lives of youth by: - building students' character skills and social-emotional learning (sel) competencies. - building and deepening students' connections to classmates, teachers and their school. - developing students' pro-social behavior and leadership skills. - supporting educators in their work to help all students succeed, both in and beyond school.in the long-term, we expect these outcomes to lead to schools that are more connected and respectful, and to a generation of young people who are equipped with the character and life skills they need to build a strong future for themselves, their communities and the world.during the 2024-2025 school year, the organization was able to deliver over 491 programs & worked with more than 64,560 students, educators and leaders. Because we know that young people do better when they have a wide network of support, yf addresses school climate challenges through a multi-faceted approach focused on students and the adults who support them. We continue to deliver virtual programming developed during…
$3,410,940 spent$1,693,734 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,410,940.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $6.7M (+40%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 24% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of YOUTH FRONTIERS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joseph Cavanaugh
CEO and board member
Board chair
Jon Reissner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $491k → $4.2M.
15 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of YOUTH FRONTIERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
YOUTH FRONTIERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 15% · 2019 13% · 2020 31% · 2021 14% · 2022 10% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of YOUTH FRONTIERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of YOUTH FRONTIERS INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
YOUTH FRONTIERS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH FRONTIERS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC?
- YOUTH FRONTIERS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,913,714 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($3,725,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH FRONTIERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $10,913,714 in grants to YOUTH FRONTIERS INC, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH FRONTIERS INC?
- WEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH FRONTIERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 95 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing